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Polkamarkets Labs is happy to announce Alex Solleiro as the new Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. Alex brings years of experience in hyper-growth tech companies as a Product leader and as an entrepreneur to help Polkamarkets Labs grow.
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Alex spent the past eight years leading product teams, identifying and shaping high-value features, and helping products and organizations grow and scale. In his career, he gained experience in different areas of companies of all sizes, from company building to sales, marketing, project management, and product development–be it in his own ventures, in high-growth startups such as Remote, SingleStore, and Unbabel, or Global Fortune 500 companies such as Dell, CapGemini E&Y and Renault.
At Polkamarkets Labs, his focus will be on ensuring that all teams run day-to-day operations smoothly, structure governance with stakeholders, and race towards the goal of being a leading technology provider for blockchain-based prediction markets.
“Forecasting is an incredible tool for information discovery to better inform decision making. Prediction markets are an efficient way of organizing and incentivizing good forecasts, and blockchain and web3 provide the best infrastructure to deploy and run them. I couldn’t be more excited to join the amazing team at Polkamarkets Labs to bring prediction markets to more and more communities and help the company grow.” — Alex Solleiro, Polkamarkets Labs COO & Co-Founder
”Alex will undoubtedly bring his expertise in different areas in hyper-growth tech companies to help guide our go-to-market strategy and augment our scaling efforts. We are thrilled to have him on board as COO & Co-Founder.” — Ricardo Marques, Polkamarkets Labs CEO & Co-Founder
About Polkamarkets
Polkamarkets is an Autonomous Prediction Market Protocol built for multi-chain information exchange and trading where users take positions on outcomes of real-world events–in decentralized and interoperable EVMs.